ABOUT UTILITY METALS - WEBPAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. EXPECTED TO BE READY BEFORE JULY 2019

UTILITY METALS UK Ltd is a company serving:a. as a sourcing tool to companies with or without a dedicated purchasing department.Small business owners without employees ( or with a small number of employees ) active in purchasing, use U.M. as an outsourcing company for their metal and plastic buying needs.Larger businesses with purchasing departments, cooperate with U.M. to enhance and strengthen their buying forceb. as a trading company, with dropshipping activity, that is purchasing materials from suppliers and reselling them to the end users. This is mostly for small orders of value around or less 2000 Euro.The company is registered in London, U.K. ( European Union ) and is operated through an office in Athens, Greece ( European Union ).Active in the field of metals and plastics since early 2004

Cost Reduction. Research for you, many times before you make it. We all make market research in the internet, that takes a lot of timeand is translated to cost. For too many cases U.M. has done this already for you or is in position to shorten the research time for you

Cost Reduction. Dedicated purchasing department at the times you never thought it was possible. Are you too busy with your work or isit too costly to employ a person dealing with international purchases ? Now you can afford it at a fraction of the cost you had in your mind.

Cost Reduction. Assistance to existing purchasing departments. You work in the purchasing department around the clock, but there is anever enough time and never assistance when you need it. Working hours are translated to cost. Even for purchasing of single items U.M.cooperates with you, reducing your workload.

Building of long term relationships. It acts as a bridge between you the customer and the supplier for long term multiple financial benefits.

Availability of supply. It may happen, suppliers not to have stock, delivery time to be long, some items to be highly priced, grouping differentmaterials in the same order not to be possible. Market demands and your personal market goals can’t wait and U.M. will source the materials youneed.

Understanding.The company that feels like you. Would you prefer buying from people that have dealt with production matters in the past ?that understand how important materials are to the final product you try to sell ? that have discussed in depth with production and designingdepartments ? that have cooperated with quality managers ? that have planned with finance, marketing and product development managers aboutcost reduction, availability, diversity, innovation and how all these can have an impact to the company’s growth ? that understand that your orderno matter small or big, has worth value of a fortune and order values are not just numbers

Flexibility. Aren’t you tired of hearing just about how big everybody else is but your big problems look just too small to them ? Aren’t theyflexible enough to try to solve them?

Diversity and innovation. Would you like to explore possibilities with products that you never knew they existed, some of them no body everbothered to suggest them to you ? Some of these metals and plastics may reduce your manufacturing cost, may assist you launch new products inyour market, or may assist you differentiate from your competitors.

e-business, connecting your traditional ways of purchasing with tomorrow’s trends and technology. Some of the most advancedcompanies in the world today use advanced web tools that maximize efficiency ? Do you want to use the same tools ?

Consultancy and advice. Nobody on earth is gonna tell you how to run your business and if you do things right or wrong. But if you ever wantto discuss with Utility Metals about your problems in the supply chain and how you could possibly solve them, U.M. is there for you to provide arange of services.

Common language, common objectives. growth, efficiency, metals, alloys, plastics, LME, price, fluctuation, supply, chain, manufacturing,inventory, certification, and so much more. U.M. speaks the same language with you about your business and is a company you can communicatewith.

Listens to you. You are not another order, you are a human with a problem to solve, with a job to do and U.M. takes that into consideration.

Dynamic. U.M. will not stop sharing knowledge with you and will always assist you to keep pace with market changes and plan for the future.U.M.

Meeting the requirements for the job. You are not acting on your own in this company, departments interact and depend each other and youwant to have done your job right. No matter to which department you belong, U.M. will assist you having in mind that you cooperate and that youmust satisfy the requirements of each department at any given time.* Compliance. You are using dual use products and you want to be sure whether you are in line with international regulations.

You are not alone. We are together in this. U.M. supports you and shares your passion for growth, improvement and achieving sustainableresults.

When you import from the E.U., you don’t pay VAT upon import in your country ( this is intra-communical activity that excempts from VAT ). Check with your local tax authorities as regulations in different countries may differ

Utility Metals invoices you except rare cases where the stockholder in the E.U. will invoice you ( that is for rare cases of the past, where there is an agreement between U.M. and the supplier, U.M. to act as an agent for the supplier or where is a separate agreement between U.M. and the customer, customer to be invoiced by the stockholder. As from 2016 with new customers, it is U.M. that invoices you.

Yes, this can be done. You are always advised in case you as a customer arranges for the transport of the goods, to insure the cargo for 110 % of the Invoice value against all risks ( very common international practice in trade )

If you are an E.U. customer, then ca 10-15 working days. You must consider the time needed the payment to arrive from your bank to U.M.’s bank account that is 1-3 days, that standard stock items need ca 1-2 days to be prepared for shipment and that the transport companies usually ship goods to another country every Thursday and Friday.

U.M. did nothing less than what thousands of Greek companies did, that would be to move business outside Greece. It is not possible for 1 ( one ) single Euro profit a company to be obliged to pay 5000 Euro minimum in taxes and national contributions.

Utility Metals is not active and can not sell to the following industries

nuclear of any kind inclusive the one for peaceful applications.

military for missiles, launching platforms for missiles, ammunitions, anti-ballistic applications. Exceptions can be made for projects by large country members of NATO ( i.e: U.K., U.S.A., German, France etc. )